The Newlyweds by George McManus

McManus's *The Newlyweds* depicts a young married couple navigating domestic life through sight gags and verbal humor. The strip's six panels establish recurring characters and situations—marital misunderstandings, household mishaps, interaction with servants and visitors—told through sequential visual narrative. McManus employs clear panel borders, expressive body language, and speech balloons to advance gags across a unified space. Published in Sunday newspapers alongside *Splinters* and *Makin' B'lieve*, this strip exemplifies how early-twentieth-century comics developed visual grammar from newspaper cartoons: repeating characters, panel-to-panel storytelling, and humor scaled for both children and adults. The strip's domestic comedy reflected middle-class anxieties while establishing formats that would define the medium for decades.